Spaces of Creative Resistance

Contents

Foreword by Christopher T. Nelson
Introduction: Shifting Contexts, Creative Responses by Andrea Gevurtz Arai

Section I: Creative Acts of Resistance
1 DiY Sensibilities, Eco-Aesthetics, and Women’s Projects in Post 3.11 Japan by Andrea Gevurtz Arai
2 Ma-eul Sal-i of Korean Young People: Making Spaces for a Different Lifestyle by Hyein Chae
3 Regaining Autonomy at Work in Hong Kong’s “Alternative Communities” by Chor-See Chan
4 “I Want to Lie Flat Like a Dead Fish”: A Form of Young People’s Creative Resistance in 21st- Century China by Jinyue Xu and Yue Wu

Section II: Cultural Spaces and Community Places
5 “I Refuse to Live in a Town Without a Cinema!”: Rebuilding a Cultural Space and Social Infrastructure in Toyooka, Japan by Hidehiko Ishibashi
6 Rebuilding a Vacant Space and Regaining My Place in Kanazawa Japan by Keisuke Sugano 
7 706 Youth Space: A Collective Response to Social Issues by Urban Elite Youth in China by Summer Xuan Dai
8 Creative Resistance and Social Isolation in Japan by Yumi Matsubara

Section III: Environments of Creative Resistance​
9 The Case of the Yuanli Hi Home: Revitalizing Community and “Gathering” Spaces in Taiwan by Hsiu Fan Lin and Yu Liu
10 The Tale of a Transitional Site for Self-Organized Civic Life in South Korea (Bibil Base) by Yeonjung Ahn
11 Urban Poverty and Spaces of Community Action in Wan-hua, Taipei by Liling Huang and Jeff Hou

Teaching Appendix

Bibliography
Index